|| *Comments on the 1996 Save Mart Supermarkets 300:* View the most recent comment <#32> | Post a comment <#post> Tweet 1. 'Modern Era' Nascar Sucks posted: 03.25.2006 - 11:04 pm Rate this comment: (3) (0) I was at this race standing just past turn #7. Before the race a couple of guys ask me who I think will win. " Uh, Rusty Wallace," I say."He's due." I also knew he was a goo d road course racer. I got a couple of those "you don't know what you're talking about" looks but hey a lucky guess? Anyway a young Jeff Gordon leads late during a caution period. As the green flag flies with just a handful of laps left the field heads up the hill towards turn #2. Evidently the young Gordon did not get all of the rubber off his tires and they spin going up the hill. Rusty Wallace squeezes by to take the lead. Another caution and a couple of green flag laps and he's your winner. 2. mcmurrayfan posted: 06.24.2006 - 1:28 am Rate this comment: (0) (0) First starts for Larry Gunselman and Jeff Krogh. 3. Anonymous posted: 11.16.2006 - 8:31 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) Rusty ran completely off the track trying to chase down Gordon. Rusty was able to catch and pass Jeff anyway. The Miller car failed post race inspection for being to low and Wallace was fined and penalized. 4. Frogger49 posted: 03.06.2007 - 4:53 am Rate this comment: (0) (0) Krogh finished this race? He stuffed it into the tires at Turn 4 late in the race and caused a full course caution. That thing did not look like it was going anywhere after that. 5. Frogger49 posted: 03.06.2007 - 4:54 am Rate this comment: (1) (0) Oh, and Joe Nemechek plowed through the tires at Turn 2 for the 2nd consecutive year. 6. Anonymous posted: 07.20.2007 - 8:01 pm Rate this comment: (2) (0) Mark Martin actually started 44th, because he had to pit before the race started to connect a plug wire. 44th to 2nd at Sears Point is amazing. That 6 car was awesome at the Point from 95-97. 7. Anonymous posted: 07.21.2007 - 12:26 am Rate this comment: (1) (0) Wally Dallenbach had the fastest car all race long, but an off track excursion on lap 71 while trying to pass Mark Martin, plus bad pit stops all day, kept him from victory lane. Rusty Wallace's crew wore blue and white Miller Lite uniforms during this race, even though Rusty's car was his regular Black, Red, Blue, and Yellow Miller Ford. I wonder what that was about. 8. Brock posted: 12.06.2007 - 9:17 am Rate this comment: (1) (0) You know, out of all the races I've seen on ESPN, I've never quite seen Bob Jenkins and Benny Parsons as animated during a broadcast as they were for this one. They just sounded like they were having a blast! (during a battle between #3 and #2) BP: "There's a challenge for the leeeead! Bob, it's headed over toward yoooou!" Bob: "Benny, you scared me half to death!" Awesome race, too; the last few laps had some serious frammin' and bammin'! 9. Brock posted: 12.06.2007 - 9:20 am Rate this comment: (0) (0) Also, Ricky Craven was releived by Ron Hornaday about 3 laps in, the injured Craven still wearing the black eye he earned from his horrifying Talladega wreck the previous week. Craven's car was also practiced by Dale Earnhardt that same weekend. Hornaday, who had won the previous day's truck race at Portland, ran about mid-pack all day before being spun hard into the tire barrier off turn three with just a few laps to go. 10. WillG_46 posted: 05.09.2008 - 7:37 am Rate this comment: (0) (0) Interesting story about Geoff Bodine and the 7/07. He originally planned to drive the 07 and put Dave Rezendes (his CTS driver) in the 7. Rezendes qualified and Bodine didn't, so they switched. Bodine raced and Rezendes in reality DNQ'ed. 11. RaceFanX posted: 07.06.2009 - 2:12 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) This was Rezendes' only shot at Cup 12. Former Racer posted: 02.24.2010 - 2:39 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) I remember on one of the pace laps seeing something (looked like a wooden block) come out from under Rusty's car. Could that be why he passed pre-race height inspection but not post-race? 13. David posted: 08.10.2011 - 2:47 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) Any reason why there was 44 cars in this race instead of 43? 14. Anonymous posted: 09.22.2011 - 8:43 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) NASCAR gave the Winston West drivers two provisional places at the rear of the field at the West Coast races until 1997. 15. rateus posted: 11.05.2013 - 4:43 am Rate this comment: (0) (0) Driver changes - Hornaday qualified Craven's car as well as relieving it in the race, nad Trickle's car was qualified by Ken Pedersen. 16. 23andJoe posted: 02.25.2014 - 9:46 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) Also to the rear: Geoff Bodine, #7, driver change. 17. 23andJoe posted: 04.05.2014 - 8:46 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) #00 owner: Geoff Burney 18. 23andJoe posted: 04.06.2014 - 10:55 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) #07 owner: Raymond Claridge 19. nascarfreak99 posted: 11.12.2014 - 9:52 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) NASCAR actually had to black flag Craven to get off the track. Craven agreed to bring the car in after lap 1, but he kept staying out on the track. 20. Flywheel89 posted: 12.24.2014 - 7:15 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) I remember hearing a story on RPM2Night after this race saying Shepherd was being released from the #75 team after the season ended. 21. RaceFanX posted: 10.30.2015 - 10:53 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) Rusty Wallace scores his first road course victory since his prior win at Sonoma in 1990. This was Wallace's sixth and final Cup win on a road course and his only one in a Ford Thunderbird. 22. RaceFanX posted: 11.22.2015 - 1:10 am Rate this comment: (0) (0) Bill Elliott's injury at Talladega put him on the sidelines for this one making this race the first since Martinsville in the fall of 1982 that he missed. In his absence SCCA Trans-Am ace Tommy Kendall, on his way to that series' 1996 championship, crossed over to fill in racing the #94 McDonald's Ford and led a few laps in the process. 23. Unser1 posted: 11.28.2015 - 6:16 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) Bobby Hillin, Jr. returns after failing to qualify for the prior four races in a row...and ends up finishing outside the top-40. 24. RaceFanX posted: 11.25.2016 - 4:39 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) Rick Mast leads his only lap of the 1996 season in a points paying race. He also led a lap in the Busch Clash earlier in the season. 25. Bramblegrunt posted: 03.03.2017 - 2:52 pm Rate this comment: (1) (0) I believe this would be Bud Moore's 298th and last top 5 as a car owner. It was his first since 1994 with Lake Speed. Sponsorship woes that opened the 1996 season were relieved by Hayes Modems for 1 year but came right back the following year and Bud Moore would eventually shut down after a few 1-off attempts in the coming years. Dallenbach gave Bud's car one heck of a ride on this day, which everyone expected. He had an excellent battle for 2nd with Martin in front of him and Earnhardt behind him in the closing laps but Martin did some fierce defending and his old teammate couldnt do anything with him. Rusty happily watched this in his rear view mirror and would go on to win after he took advantage of Jeff Gordon spinning his debris cluttered tires earlier in the race 26. Anonymous posted: 04.08.2017 - 10:18 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) If I'm not mistaking, some of this race is used in the opening of the video game Nascar 98. 27. Corey posted: 10.12.2017 - 1:00 pm Rate this comment: (0) (1) If I remember right, due to the length of the lap here, the Craven-Hornaday exchange was done under green and they didn't lose a lap. 28. oldschoolracing519 posted: 01.01.2018 - 2:26 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) as mentioned in post #7 DC #7 Dave Rezendes, Geoff DNQ in the 07 so he drove his #7 in the race since Rezendes qualified the car 29. RaceFanX posted: 10.11.2018 - 8:36 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) Rusty Wallace, Mark Martin, and Wally Dallenbach, Jr. give Ford its first 1-2-3 finish of the season. This was the first of just three times all year that Thunderbirds would sweep the podium. 30. Jimnsimforever posted: 03.20.2019 - 3:03 am Rate this comment: (0) (0) Dale Earnhardt spent a ton of money helping the #41 team out. He flew Ron Hornaday back and forth from Sears Point to Portland 2 times on his private jet. Hornaday first had to be in Portland to qualify his truck then flew him to Sears Point to qualify Ricky Craven's #41 car for the Cup race, then back to Portland for the truck race, then back to Sears Point again. Nascar was a big family that had each others backs if you were in it. Unless of course Hedrick reimbursed him for the costs, who knows. 31. Darrell posted: 05.04.2020 - 4:23 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) Driver change: Ron Hornaday, Jr. qualified Ricky Craven's car. (In addition, Dale Earnhardt himself practiced Craven's car as he recovered from injuries suffered the previous week at Talladega). 32. BroadcastingBrothers posted: 08.25.2020 - 4:56 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) DC | Ken Pedersen | 19 | Healthsource | Mark Smith | Ford ------------------------------------------------------------------------ *Post a comment:* Your comment may not appear immediately - all comments must be approved by the moderator. Name: Comment: